100 Years Of Global Warming Spells Disaster, Say Scientists Report Predicts Starvation And Widespread Flooding By 2100

Vast lands will flood, some people may starve, glaciers will melt and deserts could expand and turn more extreme, according to a report assessing the effects of global warming over the next 100 years.

Scientists from more than 30 nations said in a report issued Tuesday that global warming, triggered in part by human activity, will cause a 2- to 6-degree Fahrenheit rise in average surface temperature, melt a third of the Earth’s glaciers and cause a sea level rise of one-half foot to 3 feet by the year 2100.

The report said that people who live in hot climates, along low coastal areas and on small islands will be the most seriously affected.

“Climate change will affect all countries in one way or another,” said Robert Watson of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the lead author of the report.

But he said that poor countries already stressed from hot climates, deserts and marginal agricultural production are apt to suffer the most.

The report was prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II and involves an analysis of the impacts and possible adaptations resulting from global warming. The panel includes scientists from many countries. The report was prepared to advise world governments.

Estimates of temperature and sea level increases in the report are based on new studies, but are only slightly lower than estimates made last year by another IPCC working group.,